The American West
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The American West: Competing Visions
By Karen R. Jones, John WillsIn the Vogue feature ' Shootout at the PC Corral , James Ryan enthused how , ' With westerns riding high again , Hollywood suddenly has dozens of multicultural , revisionist , and historically accurate variations in the works ' .
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The American West: A New Interpretive History, Second Edition
By Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher, Jon T. Coleman... 325 Garokontié, Daniel (Onondaga leader), 70 Gates, Bill, 393 Geffen, David, 428 gender roles, European vs. ... 288–91 Giannini, Amadeo Peter, 328, 390, 391 Glacier National Park, 356, 360 Glorieta Pass, battle of, 212 Goff, Seldon, ...
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The American West
By Dee BrownWhen a newspaper reporter asked J. W. Eastman, the director, why he carried a six-shooter, Eastman replied: “It's my baton.” “Is it loaded?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” said Eastman. “What for?” continued the reporter.
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The American West: Year by Year
By John S. BowmanCompelling, visually stunning work analyzes the pivotal role of the West in the development of the U.S. Concise essays cover popular military, Native American and national figures, immigration, colonization, gunfights, the development of ...
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The American West: A Twentieth-century History
By Michael P. Malone, Richard W. EtulainJohn Swett , state superintendent of schools in California , stated well the inherited American commitment to public schools : “ The wealth of the state must educate the children of the state . ” Similarly , the frontier West quickly ...
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The American West: A New Interpretive History
By Robert V. Hine, John Mack FaragherR. David Edmunds, Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (Boston, 1984), 131, 145; John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the ... Bernard De Voto, The Journals ofLewis and Clark (Boston, 1953), xxiv; James D. Richardson, ...
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The American West: A Big Story for Little Historians
By Sarah ReadWe all love to tell stories to kids--and later kids love to explore what they love to read. This tale of the American West is a familiar story to adults, but to children it is new and fresh.
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The American West: Living the Frontier Dream
By Roberta Wiener, James R. ArnoldHistorians James Arnold and Roberta Wiener provide an in-depth account of how the West was settled, including information on the acquisition and creation of food, fuel, clothing, shelter, etc., and the formation of legal and trading ...
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction
By Stephen AronSo do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.
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The American West: The Invention of a Myth
By David Hamilton MurdochAmericans have chosen to invest one small part of their history, the settlement of the western wilderness, with extraordinary significance. The lost frontier of the 1800s remains not merely a...
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The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present
By Michael P. MaloneChronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes ...
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The American West
By Bradley J. Birzer, Larry SchweikartFrom the mysteries of the ancient Anasazi to the technological marvels of Silicon Valley, the American West has been a place where legends are made. In this authoritative, single-volume reference,...
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The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality
By Peter H. HassrickWestern art of America's frontier years, from about 1825 to 1925, has traditionally been perceived as the art most representative of the country's cultural and historical essence. European American explorers...
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The American West: A Concise History
By Michael J. Lansing, Anne M. ButlerTracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and...
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The American West: A Concise History
By Michael J. Lansing, Anne M. Butler24 See Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865–1890 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 50–1. 25 Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush ...
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The American West
By Dee BrownThe cowboys dubbed the place “Nobility Ranch,” and in a few months every outfit in the neighborhood was mavericking cattle from the inefficient Rocking Chair. Archibald John Marjoribanks, a young relative of Baron Tweedmouth, ...
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The American West
By Anne McEvoyPioneer Press, 1989. Rollins, Peter C., and O'Connor, John E. Hollywood's West, in Film, Television and History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Sinclair, Clive. True Tales of the Wild West. Picador, 2007. Tunis, Edward.
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction
By Stephen AronControl over North American lands remained hotly contested and quite uncertain for hundreds of years after 1492. Well into the eighteenth century, the vast majority of North American Indians had not become the subordinates of European ...
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The American West: The Reader
By Martin Ridge, Walter Nugent2; Rocky Mountain News (W), July 27, 1864, p. 2. 30. Rocky Mountain News (D), July 18, 1864, p. 2. 31. Ibid., July 19, 1864, ... Simeon Whiteley to John Evans, Denver, August 30, 1864, Indian Affairs, 1864, pp. 38of, Whiteley to Evans, ...
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The American West: The Reader
By Martin Ridge, Walter T. K. Nugent40. Rocky Mountain News ( W ) , August 31 , 1864 , p . 4 . 41. Indian Affairs , 1864 , p . 363 : Indian Depredation Claims , p . 22 . 42. OR , Series 1 , Vol . 41 , Part 2 , pp . 766f ; Rocky Mountain News ( D ) , August 26 , 1864 , p .